The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-30
Notes and Opinions.

AN increase in the volume of bust
ness is reported from several trade
centers.
PENSION claims are being filed at
Washington at the rate of 5000 week.
There are 2S7 ,137 applications on hand.
THE propriety of republicans solicit
ing favors from democratic admins
tration in the matter of appointments
to office may well be questioned.
THE Washington Star says, on the
authority of prominent democrat,
that Judge Cooley is to be president of
the interstate commerce commission.
THE Indian rights associations
throughout the country are doing much
to create better public sentiment in
regard to the Indians and their rights.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is at last
convinced that Governor Hill is in the
race for the nomination in 1888, and
that the friends of the governor have
nearly perfected plan of campaign.
THE Connecticut legislature has
stopped one gap in the existing liquor
laws by providing that in no-license
towns druggists shall not sell liquor
more than once on the same medical
prescription.
DAVID PRESTON, prohibition NOM
inee for governor of Michigan in 1884,
announces that he shall vote the repub-
lican ticket at the spring election, and
many prominent prohibitionists will
follow his example.
THE New York World declares that
Blaine's friends are putting in syste-
matte work in the North and South,
and have got in ahead of John Sher-
man in the latter quarter. All of which
is probably idle conjecture.
"THE innocent people that had no.
ton that the interstate commerce bill
would benefit anybody but railroads are
beginning to realize their mistake p
Manchester Union. If you are dissat-
isfed why don't you buy a railroad?
AFTER warm debate in the British
house of commons the home-rule ele-
ment won substantial victory in
securing the rejection of the govern
ment's motion to grant urgency for the
coercion bill by vote of 260 to $40.
A MAINE experimenting school COM
mittee makes this recommendation in
its annual report: "The parents in
this district should be taken to the
school-house, tied in the seats and
kept there three days without food"
Wherefore?
A WRITER in the Homiletic ReUieac,
urging ministers to study the art of
oratory, says, very pertinently: eff you
want people to go to church you must
interest them, and you can't interest
them by hallooing at them nor by
mumbling at them"
THE Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers
railroad has been leased to the Boston
g. Lowell for period of ninety-nine
years, and upon terms which will net
the stockholders five per cent per
annum for ten years from April l and
six per cent thereafter.
THE statement that Mr.. Beecher
preached his first sermon in Brattle-
boro was incorrect. A letter from Mr..
Beecher to j. E. Dwight of Con-
cord, N. H., in 1885, mentions that his
first sermon was preached in school
house in Belchertown, Mass.
CONGRESSMAN BUTTERwORTH of
Ohio has ventilated his opinions on the
question of reciprocity between Canada
and the United States. He advocates
mutual concessions on both sides of
the line, and says that the fishery dis
pute is only a side-dish compared to
other commercial interests.
THE Norfolk Virginian, democratic
newspaper on the edge of the /" black
belt" of Virginia, says: 1T is perhaps
best at once to end the inordinate am
bition of the negro and have him I'M
derstand that the administration of this
government has always been and shall
forever remain in the custody of the
white people,"
THE Providence Journals utterances
on the Rhode Island election are quoted
freely by the democratic and mugwump
papers. BY way of reciprocity, the
utterances of the democratic and mug
wump papers are freely quoted by the
Providence Journal This is beauti-
full arrangement, but it happens that the
state of Rhode Island is neither demo-
cratic nor mugwump.- Boston Journal.
AT lecture in New York Sam Small
began to advocate prohibition, when a
man in the crowd queried; How does
it work in Atlanta?" Mr.. Small re-
piled: "Well, if you don't believe it
works, go down and try to sell some
liquor there. We had nine dealers
there who were skeptical about it. 1t